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   Mboxreader – easily view your Gmail Takeouts▲7

   Hey HN, Did you know you can download all your emails (and attachments) from GMail into a .mbox format using Google Takeout (https://takeout.google.com)? I did this and for the longest time my .mbox backup just sat around. I built a web app that can take an .mbox file and load it into a UI that looks like GMail: threaded conversations, original labels and categories, contacts, attachments, and full-text search. The mail never leaves your machine: the upload and parsing happens in a Web Worker in your own browser, and the archive is stored in browser storage on your device. Close…

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   MBOX Viewer▲3

   Open and read MBOX files right in your browser.

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   Mimestream 1.0▲175

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   Mimestream▲224

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    Mbox Viewer v.2.0▲1

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    Kiwi for Gmail▲225

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